Managing Innovation in Japan [electronic resource] : The Role Institutions Play in Helping or Hindering how Companies Develop Technology /
Watanabe, Chihiro.author.
International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis.
Why do some country’s hi-tech firms innovate better than others? Why did hi-tech firms from the United States outperform such Japanese companies in the 1990s? Through a wealth of empirical evidence, the book compares the development trajectory of manufacturing technology and information technology both between Japanese companies and between companies based in the US, Europe, Australia, India and China. This book shows that institutional systems such as culture, tradition, consumers and local business practices play key roles in how companies develop technology. These factors also influence the very characteristics of the products that the hi-tech firms produce. With a number of case studies the author demonstrates how the most successful and innovative companies recognize these roles and incorporate them into their practices.
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Includes bibliographical references.
Formation of IT Features through Interaction with Institutional Systems: Empirical Evidence of Unique Epidemic Behavior -- Institutional Elasticity as a Significant Driver of IT Functionality Development -- A Substitution Orbit Model of Competitive Innovations -- Impacts of Functionality Development on Dynamism between Learning and Diffusion of Technology -- Diffusion, Substitution and Competition Dynamism Inside the ICT Market: A Case of Japan -- The Co-evolution Process of Technological Innovation: An Empirical Study of Mobile Phone Vendors and Telecommunication Service Operators in Japan -- Technopreneurial Trajectory Leading to Bipolarization of Entrepreneurial Contour in Japanâ€™s Leading Firm -- Technological Diversification Strategic Trajectory Leading to an Effective Utilization of Potential Resources in Innovation: A Case of Canon -- Japanâ€™s Coevolutionary Dynamism between Innovation and Institutional Systems: Hybrid Management Fusing East and West -- Conclusion.
Why do some country’s hi-tech firms innovate better than others? Why did hi-tech firms from the United States outperform such Japanese companies in the 1990s? Through a wealth of empirical evidence, the book compares the development trajectory of manufacturing technology and information technology both between Japanese companies and between companies based in the US, Europe, Australia, India and China. This book shows that institutional systems such as culture, tradition, consumers and local business practices play key roles in how companies develop technology. These factors also influence the very characteristics of the products that the hi-tech firms produce. With a number of case studies the author demonstrates how the most successful and innovative companies recognize these roles and incorporate them into their practices.
Economic policy.
Computers and civilization.
Information technology.
Business—Data processing.
R & D/Technology Policy.
Computers and Society.
IT in Business.